Tag: Missiles

The launches came just hours before South Korea was set to hold an event marking the Armed Forces Day with its key military assets on display.

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin slammed the US decision to abandon the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) established after the Cold War aimed at eliminating intermediate and shorter-range missiles, saying the move could provoke an arms race. “It is very difficult to imagine how this situation will unfold,” he told the press. “And what […]

Beijing: China has achieved a feat of testing three types of hypersonic aircraft missiles at the same time, a media report has said. The tests of three scaled-down models of “wide-speed-range vehicles”, which can fly at, from hypersonic velocity to lower than the speed of sound, were carried out on September 21 at the Jiuquan […]

Washington: American spy agencies have said there were indicators that showed North Korea was constructing new missiles at a factory that produced Pyongyang’s first intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) capable of reaching the US. Newly obtained evidence, including satellite photos taken between July 20 and July 22, indicates that work is underway on at least one […]

Baghdad: Two mortar rounds hit the Iraqi capital’s Green Zone Saturday and two rockets slammed into a base housing US troops, security sources said, a day after a deadly American strike. The precision drone strike outside the Baghdad airport on Friday killed Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, top Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and a […]